* The assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by a German-born Polish Jew triggers the Kristallnacht ( The Night of Broken Glass ) held between the 9 to 10 November 1938 and carried out by the Hitler Youth, the Gestapo and the SS during which the Jewish population living in Nazi Germany and Austria were attacked – 91 Jews were murdered and 25, 000 to 30, 000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps.

Kristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, or Reichskristallnacht,, and, was a pogrom or series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9 – 10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary and civilians.

The onset of the Great Depression, forced the sale of the factory to the Ball Glass Company in 1937, and the factory was permanently closed in 1938.

Glass wool, which is commonly known as " fiberglass " today, however, was invented in 1938 by Russell Games Slayter of Owens-Corning as a material to be used as insulation.

File: Memorial Stained Glass window, Class of 1938, Royal Military College of Canada. jpg | Stained glass Lamb of God carrying the vexillum, Royal Military College of Canada

He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1938 after studying under John Anderson, sharing the medal in philosophy with eminent jurist Harold Glass.

* Glass fiber ( 1938 ) is used for:

On 15 November 1938, 5 days after the devastation of " Kristallnacht ", the " Night of Broken Glass ," in Germany and Austria, a delegation of British Jewish leaders appealed in person to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Neville Chamberlain.

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

* Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht – Crystal Night ; refers to the " Night of Broken Glass ", November 9 – 10, 1938, when mob violence against Jewish people broke out all over Germany.

From 1938 to 1941, he lived in Lancaster, Ohio and McArthur, Ohio, working for the Anchor Hocking Glass Corp. and the Austin Powder Co.

During the Night of Broken Glass in 1938, the synagoge was plundered.

The Carter Glass bas-relief was not dedicated until December 23, 1938.

* Arthur A. Houghton, Sr. ( 1866 – 1928 ), son of Amory Houghton Jr, former president of Corning Glass, married Mahitbel Hollister ( 1867 – 1938 )

In 1938, she headed the cast in a revival of Outward Bound and did not appear again until her re-emergence in Williams ' The Glass Menagerie in 1944 ; her performance received unanimously rapturous reviews.

-Israelische Kultusgemeinde Wien " ( Here stood the Leopoldstädter Tempel, built in 1858 in the moorish style according the plans of architect Leopold Förster, all but the foundation of which was completely destroyed by National Socialist barbarians on the so-called " Night of Broken Glass ", on 10 November 1938 ).

* Kennard, Earle H. ( 1938 ) Kinetic Theory of Gases ; McGraw-Hill Book Company ; pp 327 – 337

By 1938, an estimated 20 individuals remained in the wild, some 6-8 of which were located in the old-growth forest called the Singer Tract in Louisiana, where logging rights were held by the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company.

* Mercury ( automobile ), produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1938 to 2011

* Sanford, Eva Matthews ( 1938 ) The Mediterranean world in ancient times, Ronald series in history, New York: The Ronald Press Company, 618 p.

New York: The MacMillian Company, 1938.

( Hugo Black, dissenting, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson ( 303 U. S. 77, 1938 ).

* Taos, was a sleeping car built by the Budd Company in 1938 for use on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's passenger train, the Super Chief

Boston: Expression Company, 1938.

* Flint, Keith, Airborne Armour: Tetrarch, Locust, Hamilcar and the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, 1938 – 50, Helion & Company, 2004

* American Record Corporation ( 1929 – 1938 ), a United States record label also known as American Record Company

by John H. P. Marks, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1938 – aka Death on the Installment Plan ( US ), tr.

In 1938, the Goodyears had ended their lumber operations at the Great Southern Lumber Company and sold the paper mill operations.

* Samuel Heilner ( 1856 – 1938 ), former Director of New York and New England Railroad Company.

In 1938 Johnstown Traction Company began to operate bus service to Westmont Borough via buses that rode up and down the Inclined Plane.

Jersey Shore Steel Company was founded in 1938, near the end of the Great Depression by John A. Schultz.

The Stuart Power and Light Company bought them out, and they were then sold to the Virginia East Coast Utilities Company, and in 1938, the Appalachian Electric Power Company bought them out.

In 1967, ground was broken at the site of the 1938 fire by the Ellensburg Telephone Company which acquired the land to build a local telephone exchange office for the Thorp area.

In 1938, the Meccano Company launched a new range of OO models under the trade name of Hornby Dublo, OO gauge has remained the UK's most popular scale / gauge ever since.

At the Embassy Theatre in March 1937 he played Anderson in a mystery play, The Bat, before returning to the Old Vic in April, succeeding Marius Goring as Chorus in Henry V. Other roles that year included Christopher Drew in Daisy Fisher's comedy A Ship Comes Home at the St Martin's Theatre in May and Larry Starr in Philip Leaver's comedy Three Set Out at the Embassy in June, before joining John Gielgud's Company at the Queen's Theatre, September 1937 to April 1938, where he played Bolingbroke in Richard II, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal and Baron Tusenbach in Three Sisters.

The Hawker Aircraft Company bought Parlaunt Farm at Langley in 1938 and built a major factory and airfield there.

* Fast Company ( 1938 )

In 1938 he was named Vice-President, Research and Development, of the newly formed Owens Corning Fiberglass Corporation.

In 1928 Vickers-Armstrongs took over Supermarine as Supermarine Aviation Works ( Vickers ) Ltd and in 1938 all Vickers-Armstrongs aviation interests were reorganised to become Vickers-Armstrongs ( Aircraft ) Ltd, although Supermarine continued to design, build and trade under its own name.

The first turbocharged diesel truck was produced by Schweizer Maschinenfabrik Saurer ( Swiss Machine Works Saurer ) in 1938.

The company began in 1938 at the Britannia Works, Thurmaston near Leicester, England, as Taylorcraft Aeroplanes ( England ) Limited, making light observation aircraft designed by the Taylorcraft Aircraft Corporation of America.

The Federal Theatre Project of the Works Progress Administration launched several productions of the play in cities across the United States, including a production with marionettes in Los Angeles in 1938.

As part of the New Works Programme, the Northern Line was provided with 1938 stock.

In 1938, the Works Progress Administration built the Vocational builfing.

Cordova High School was built by the Works Progress Administration in 1938 and the building served the city through the 2007 school year.

The Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), a New Deal agency, was active in Sulphur Springs, building in 1942 what was later called the “ Old School ,” meant to replace the crumbling 1908 structure that was razed in 1938.

In 1938 the construction started after the " Works Progress Administration " had decided to finance half the cost.

Two structures in the community, a courthouse ( 1938 ) and school building ( 1942 ), were constructed Works Projects Administration ( WPA ) labor.

City Stadium in Greer is a Works Project Administration project completed in 1938 ; it currently seats 3, 000.

* John Abt, chief of Litigation for the AAA from 1933 to 1935, assistant general counsel of the Works Progress Administration in 1935, chief counsel on Senator Robert La Follette, Jr .' s LaFollette Committee from 1936 to 1937 and special assistant to the United States Attorney General, 1937 and 1938.

The lodge was constructed between 1936 and 1938 as a Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) project during the Great Depression.

One on the last major efforts to construct such tables was the Mathematical Tables Project that was started in 1938 as a project of the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), employing 450 out-of-work clerks to tabulate higher mathematical functions, and lasted through World War II.

In 1938 the fifth earl handed the care of the Abbey remains to HM Office of Works.

In late May 1938, Chandler's campaign manager publicly claimed that federal relief agencies – especially the Works Progress Administration – were openly working for Barkley's re-election.

The Headquarters building ( also called the Visitor Center Complex ) was constructed of adobe bricks as a Works Progress Administration project starting in 1936 and completed in 1938.

In late 1938, the Works Progress Administration began clearing the reservoir zone of trees and other plants.

The site was then rehabilitated by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression and dedicated to the school in 1938.

The first terminal building at the airport was built in 1938 as a Works Projects Administration ( WPA ) project.

Begun in 1938 as a project of the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), it employed 450 out-of-work clerks to tabulate higher mathematical functions, such as exponential functions, logarithms, and trigonometric functions.

* The Salem witchcraft papers: verbatim transcripts of the legal documents of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692 / compiled and transcribed in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration, under the supervision of Archie N. Frost ; edited and with an introduction and index by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum ; Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library ; pg.

Montreal Locomotive Works built another ten of these successful mountain locomotives during November and December 1938.

LMS Shop Grey was carried briefly in service on 6229 Duchess of Hamilton, between 7 September 1938 until its return to Crewe Works later that year, on 9 December 1938, to be painted crimson lake as No. 6220, in preparation for the 1939 visit to the New York World's Fair, USA.